New Permabit Enterprise Archive Data Center Series

Permabit Technology
Corporation announced the
launch of a new product, the Permabit Enterprise Archive Data Center
Series.

Featuring patent-pending technologies including RAIN-EC and
Scalable Data Reduction (SDR), the Data Center Series ensures
long-term integrity of information for large enterprises while
shrinking operating expenses. The solution delivers disk-based
information retention that is 250 times more reliable than RAID 6
technology while supporting scalability up to 3 petabytes of raw disk
capacity. Taking into account the data reduction Permabit’s SDR
technology can achieve, multiple petabytes of data can be stored for
as little as 33 cents per gigabyte. With this revolutionary new
technology, Permabit is delivering the industry’s safest and most
cost-effective disk-based archiving solution.

"A dirty little secret in IT is that 60 to 80 percent of the data
sitting on expensive, transaction-optimized primary storage today is
static. This data is vital to the organization, but it is infrequently
accessed and belongs on a different tier of storage," said Heidi
Biggar, analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group. "Permabit’s Enterprise
Archive Data Center Series architecture addresses this problem at its
root, enabling organizations to move huge volumes of static data to
more cost-effective tiers with the assurance that business SLAs will
continue to be met."

In an uncertain economic climate, with increasing budget pressures
and data center utility constraints, companies are looking for ways to
trim operational expenses while maintaining service levels and
managing the inevitable data expansion. Permabit’s Enterprise Archive
Data Center Series addresses the needs of large enterprises head on
and leads the industry through its technical innovations. SDR
technology minimizes the storage footprint and dramatically reduces
administration and operating costs while Permabit’s new RAIN-EC
technology provides archive data protection capable of withstanding
multiple simultaneous failures.

How Permabit Enterprise Archive is Different

The Permabit Enterprise Archive Data Center Series is the only
disk-based archiving product that addresses all four of the major
archiving needs of large enterprises as identified by analyst George
Crump of Storage Switzerland in his recent paper, "The Enterprise
Archive Defined: Scalability, Cost Efficiency, Availability and Secure
Protection."

• Massively Scalable – Permabit’s RAIN-EC technology and grid
  architecture enable up to 3 petabytes of raw disk storage while
  maintaining I/O throughput up to hundreds of megabytes per second.
• Cost Effective – The combination of SDR, RAIN-EC, and standard
  hardware achieves real data storage costs from $0.33 to $2.33 per
  gigabyte, which is significantly lower as compared to the industry
  range of $25 to $75 per gigabyte.
• Always Available – Grid architecture with separate access nodes
  and storage nodes provides online, full availability, allowing for
  rolling upgrades with no-touch migration and rapid retrievals.
• Reliably Protected – 250 times more reliable than RAID 6
  technology, RAIN-EC is coupled with data verification, replication,
  WORM, and encryption for redundancy and ensured data integrity.

Statistics Demonstrate the Market’s Need for an Enterprise
Archive Solution

90 percent of data created is static 90 days after its
creation. (Source: Storage Networking Industry Association)
56 percent of data recovered is less than two days’ old. (Source:
ESG Research, "The Evolution of Enterprise Data Protection")

Digital archive capacity will increase nearly tenfold between
2005 and 2010, to more than 25,000 petabytes. (Source: ESG Research,
"Digital Archiving: End-User Survey & Market Forecast, 2006-2010")

"Enterprise archiving is a $6 billion market that has not been
adequately served until now. Customers tell us they are frustrated
with the unreliability of optical and tape, the lack of
scalability of other archiving solutions, and the high cost of using
primary disk storage to store fixed content," explained Tom Cook, CEO,
Permabit. "We built the Data Center Series to be everything a scalable
archive should be – and must be – in order to meet the stringent
business requirements of the large enterprise."

The Permabit Enterprise Archive Data Center Series offers up to 96
terabytes of raw capacity per storage grid and enables 32 grids to be
combined into a unified system for seamless scalability. This solution
is available today at a starting list price of $5 per gigabyte, with
Scalable Data Reduction providing a realized cost that can be
dramatically less.

Permabit Technology
Corporation